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Housing: Greater London

Mr. Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much housing-related Supporting People funding was made available in each local authority in London in each year since its inception. [126842]

Mr. Woolas: The Supporting People programme grant payable to London boroughs since the commencement of the Supporting People programme is shown in the following table:

£
London borough	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Barking and Dagenham	4,544,327	4,997,640	4,829,776	4,774,078	5,061,217
Barnet	7,542,572	7,490,089	7,210,584	7,118,201	7,497,667
Bexley	2,809,055	2,777,648	2,776,759	2,776,454	2,984,688
Brent	13,685,359	13,723,511	13,032,318	12,806,959	12,806,959
Bromley	5,656,336	5,645,494	5,361,155	5,268,448	5,428,129
Camden	40,496,526	39,696,525	37,242,715	36,452,312	35,723,266
City of London	760,118	741,115	703,788	691,618	698,534
Croydon	9,102,163	8,881,039	8,572,165	8,469,806	8,951,651
Ealing	11,577,064	11,643,789	11,103,991	10,927,251	11,125,397
Enfield	11,971,237	11,849,724	11,252,905	11,058,316	11,055,312
Greenwich	9,607,127	9,505,899	9,113,923	8,984,893	9,302,736
Hackney	24,509,011	24,114,767	22,900,212	22,504,214	22,221,917
Hammersmith and Fulham	14,112,586	13,932,752	13,231,020	13,002,225	12,826,145
Haringey	23,764,720	23,323,001	22,148,323	21,765,327	21,330,020
Harrow	3,619,539	3,624,556	3,498,300	3,456,462	3,582,678
Havering	2,573,753	2,550,490	2,460,000	2,430,034	2,578,536
Hillingdon	6,145,631	6,239,503	5,925,247	5,822,786	5,954,047
Hounslow	5,500,202	5,614,200	5,423,405	5,360,124	5,525,734
Islington	16,802,429	16,551,521	15,901,079	15,686,535	15,934,504
Kensington and Chelsea	12,128,322	12,205,258	11,590,533	11,390,106	11,170,507
Kingston	4,755,200	4,720,995	4,483,219	4,405,694	4,405,694
Lambeth	22,565,449	22,112,120	20,998,429	20,635,317	20,792,197
Lewisham	18,671,575	18,452,195	17,522,839	17,219,829	17,219,829
Merton	3,583,735	3,523,216	3,345,767	3,287,911	3,385,278
Newham	11,355,458	11,272,635	10,855,567	10,717,671	11,068,502
Redbridge	4,466,479	4,394,844	4,258,705	4,213,412	4,467,863
Southwark	20,184,059	20,108,613	19,095,830	18,765,619	18,765,619
Sutton	3,755,546	3,833,837	3,640,743	3,577,786	3,667,041
Tower Hamlets	15,539,395	15,732,633	15,166,392	14,978,978	15,384,899
Waltham Forest	7,940,350	7,967,877	7,666,158	7,566,490	7,882,823
Wandsworth	11,815,116	11,860,631	11,263,263	11,068,495	11,177,258
Westminster	18,488,309	18,250,145	17,330,965	17,031,272	17,051,638

Housing: Standards

Mr. Betts: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how many arm’s length management organisations have signed up to the Respect Standard for Housing Management; [126471]

(2) how many (a) homes and (b) residents in arm’s length management organisation managed areas are covered by the Respect Standard for Housing Management. [126475]

Yvette Cooper: 36 arm’s length management organisations (ALMO) who together manage over 500,000 units have signed up to the Respect Standard for Housing Management as of 1 March 2007. We estimate that over 1 million residents in arm’s length management organisations are covered by the standard.

Mr. Betts: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many arm’s length management organisation (ALMO) managed residential properties have received a complete new set of windows since the start of the ALMO programme in April 2002; and how many received a complete new set in the most recent 12 month period for which figures are available. [126473]

Yvette Cooper: The following table, based on returns from local authorities, shows the number of dwellings managed by ALMOs on which capital works on windows (installation, replacement or major repairs)
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were undertaken in each year since 2002-03 and the total expenditure on such works. We do not collect separate data on the number of dwellings where complete new sets of windows are installed.

Capital works on windows in dwellings managed by ALMOs
	Dwellings	£ million
2002-03	7,437	17.830
2003-04	24,096	58.748
2004-05	35,579	87.141
2005-06	46,199	149.080
2006-07 (forecast)	57,085	211.224
Total	170,396	524.023

Travelling People: Lancashire

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what estimate she has made of the number of Travellers residing in Lancashire in each of the past five years. [127095]

Meg Munn: Communities and Local Government do not collect information on the number of Gypsies and Travellers in each local authority area. However, it does publish a count of Gypsy and Traveller caravans in local authorities in England twice yearly. Copies of the latest publication “Count of Gypsy caravans on 19 July: last five counts” have been distributed to the Libraries of the House. An electronic version is available on the Department’s website at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1153575

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what area of land in Lancashire is set aside for Travellers to reside on. [127096]

Meg Munn: Communities and Local Government publish a list of Gypsy and Traveller sites provided by local authorities and RSLs in England twice yearly. Copies of the latest publication, “Gypsy and Traveller sites provided by local authorities and RSLs in England—19 July 2006”, have been distributed to the Libraries of the House. An electronic version is available on the Department’s website at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1153575

This does not include private sites.

Local authorities will need to allocate land for Gypsy and Traveller sites in their Development Plan Documents to meet the pitch requirements set out in Regional Spatial Strategies.

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